The fourth single off of my sophomore album, Murphy's Law. This one starts like the calm before the storm and then turns into something else entirely. Hope you guys can just vibe with it and let it take you on a ride.

Lighthouse

Written, Performed, Recorded & Produced by Barry James Streek.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MchTVFl4Hjo

I Woke Up Feeling Better Than I Woke Up Feeling Yesterday

Mellow Words

Texte Français et Google traduction

JE PREFERE EN RIRE

Elle m’a dit
Tu vois bien tes valises
Sur le seuil posées
Ras le bol de tes crises
Avant fallait penser
Je n’ai rien eu à dire
Elle était trop fâchée
J’ai préféré en rire plutôt que d’en pleurer
J’ai préféré en rire plutôt que d’en pleurer

Il m’a dit
Jamais de découvert
Pour vous c’est interdit
Y’a plus qu’une chose à faire
S’il vous reste des amis
Je n’ai pas pu rien dire
Sa porte s’est refermée
J’ai préféré en rire plutôt que d’en pleurer
J’ai préféré en rire plutôt que d’en pleurer

Ils m’ont dit
Vous êtes allé trop vite
Ici c’est limité
Plutôt que prendre la fuite
J’ai voulu m’expliquer
Je n’ai pas pu leur dire
Nom du père et papiers
J’ai préféré en rire plutôt que d’en pleurer
J’ai préféré en rire plutôt que d’en pleurer

Je m’suis dit
Je suis bien mal barré
Et personne ne m’écoute
Que des ennuis posés
En travers de ma route
Je n’ai plus qu’à me dire
Prends çà du bon côté
Et je préfère en rire plutôt que d’en pleurer
Et je préfère en rire plutôt que d’en pleurer

I PREFER TO LAUGH

She said
You see your suitcases
On the threshold asked
Get out of your fits
Before had to think
I did not have anything to say
She was too angry
I preferred to laugh at it rather than crying
I preferred to laugh at it rather than crying

He told me
Never discovered
For you it's forbidden
There's more than one thing to do
If you still have friends
I could not say anything
Her door closed
I preferred to laugh at it rather than crying
I preferred to laugh at it rather than crying

They told me
You went too fast
Here it is limited
Rather than flee
I wanted to explain myself
I could not tell them
Father's name and papers
I preferred to laugh at it rather than crying
I preferred to laugh at it rather than crying

I told myself
I am badly barred
And nobody listens to me
What troubles posed
Across the road
I just have to tell myself
Take it on the right side
And I prefer to laugh rather than crying
And I prefer to laugh rather than crying

J'AI PREFERE EN RIRE (Petite chanson marrante)

BUTTER KNIFE HEAVEN (BOP BOP)

@Rick-4-1: Well, he played drums on this, if you can call it just that. It's something much bigger really, it's like the hairs on the back of your neck on new batteries for the first time in your life.
@phil-mcwalter: Well, just the other stuff.

Enjoy heaven.

PLAY IT LOUDER

Heaven

I think I had forgotten 
How to fall in love
I got it right first time 
When I was young and pure like heaven
But it’s never been as good
In fact it’s been as rough as wood
And it’s splintered me

I sort of forgot
How it's supposed to be hot
And when it had gone cold
And I looked at what I'd got
It was not a lot

I’ve wasted some time 
Heaven
Well most of our lives 
Heaven
It feels like a crime
Sharp as a butter knife
I’ve been spread too thin
By kith and kin

Original sin
But not so original
I should have told the Pope
That there was no hope
And what would you know 
He’d agreed with me
It’s not a great story
Not bloody or gory
You just get one shot
And I must have given mine to someone else
It should have ended my game
But I’ve passed it on
It’s a little bit lame 
Just the same
Like everything else 
Bop Bop
I’m now at a full stop
Bop Bop
It’s just a pensioner’s bus-hop away 
(Anyway)

I think I had forgotten 
How to fall in love
I think I have forgotten (How to say goodbye)
How to end it all

It’s just been a waste
Heaven
A copy and paste 
Heaven 
I haven’t been traced
Lost or misplaced
I feel debased 
And disgraced
It leaves a bitter 
Aftertaste
But I aint crying
I’ve just been sprayed with Mace…

Bop Bop

Heaven…

© Aug 2019 Phil McWalter

Butter Knife Heaven

Butter Knife Heaven (Bop Bop)

Jazz Cake----Grooveclowd with----Venus Abalero

Ellipsis

Psych dub jam - with a rare outing for the Shergold Custom Masquerader guitar!
Percussion tracks all mixed from Laurentwirz's A Tension Trance ( Looperman)
HEADPHONES RECOMMENDED :)

Drumming Dub

A simple song/jam that got me out of a rut during a difficult time... not one of my best, but a personal favourite

Recorded 4th December 2020

You're out of time, baby
You're out of time
You're out of line, baby
You're out of line

And if you don't care,
I'm going to find you out
And if you don't know me by now...

You're out of time, baby,
You're out of time
You're out of line, baby
You're out of line

And if you don't care
I'd rather find out now
And if you're not fair
I won't be hanging 'round
And if you don't know
You're going to find out now
And if you don't know me by now...

Artwork based on a photograph by JP Lavery
Used under Creative Commons license at Unsplash.com
https://unsplash.com/@jpvalery

Out of time

When I was small
I'd stare at the wall
Where patterns of lights drew holes
Deep enough to fall into
And I

Got so afraid to look away
With fear that I'd never see them again
I lost that ability when I was eight
I still look for them today

When I was young
I knew how to have fun
A random stick was a gun
Real enough to make me run
And I

Got so immersed, I'd flea and hide
Fear of capture and losing a life
Those illusions faded by the age of nine
Oh, such a simpler mind

When I was a teen
I'd dare to dream
If I told you some things I've seen
Well, they’d make you scream your heart out
And I

Felt so tormented I had to escape
I'd do anything to stay out of my brain
I kicked those habits a little too late
Well, let's put that down to fate

These days I feel old
And when I stare at the wall
There's patterns of nothing but mould
Black enough to take a hold
And I

Get so afraid of everything
Places I'm going, places I've been
But if I could go back to way back when
I'd do it all the same again

Stare At The Wall

Nostalgia For The Present

"The Turtle Project" started out as exactly that, a project, a songwriting project that was born from years of being a musician in many bands, doing countless gigs, naturally gathering experience and inspiration until, one day, I stumbled upon the fact that I could actually put those experiences and many others into words. The composing aspect grew from that into what it is today ...
My way of life .

Stare At The Wall

the turtle project